“I still don’t get it. Nowadays, they’re...
“I still don’t get it. Nowadays, they’re tearing other places down so they can make them look like this.”
--Richard Tomasian, lamenting the closing of his family’s Blvd. Cafe hamburger stand in Duarte, which for decades served travelers on Route 66 but is being bulldozed to make way for a redevelopment project shopping center.
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